Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

To lose is not always failure.

I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

In England, nobody's your friend.